It happened that
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01.10.10 - 29.10.10
ST Paul St. Gallery, Auckland
It happened that
Christian Capurro | Maddie Leach | Sean Lynch | Sriwhana Spong.
curated by Charlotte Huddleston
Work for Tired Eyes (figures in the landscape (L) & Bomb (R)), 2010
acrylic on magazine pages & posters
Work for Tired Eyes (figures in the landscape), 2010
acrylic on magazine pages & unworked sheet (centre)
Work for Tired Eyes (figures in the landscape), 2010
acrylic on magazine page
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Public Lecture:
Christian Capurro, Tuesday September 28, 6pm
Opening:
Thursday, September 30, 5:30pm
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Compress #20 2008
ink, correction fluid, magazine page with erased reverse side, & pins
Compress 2006-8
ink, correction fluid, magazine pages with erased reverse side, & pins
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ST PAUL St Gallery is pleased to present 'It happened that', an exhibition that explores speculative approaches to perception and the possibilities that guide one's experience of one's surroundings. The exhibition brings together works by Christian Capurro, Maddie Leach, Sean Lynch, and Sriwhana Spong that share a tendency to shift in place and time, creating an awareness of contingencies.
The artists' concerns range widely and engage with areas such as image and non-image, matter and immateriality to query image making and perception; the commodities market through investing in precious metal; the history of an imagined island off the west coast of Ireland; and the imprecision of recollection and capture of place, object and atmosphere.
Informing the exhibition is the phrase 'it happened that', an expression and attitude drawn from the novel The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil. The novel contains the idea that if there is such a thing as a sense of reality then there must also be such a thing as a sense of possibility. This possibility is defined as the ability to conceive of everything.
If one has a sense of possibility then one can invent, proposing 'here this or that might, could or ought to happen' and that if something is one way, then could it not just as well be otherwise? The observation and analysis of events under the influence of this attitude is at the heart of the novel and serves here as a backdrop for the wider consideration of how contingency operates upon us.
Catalogue available.
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ST Paul ST Gallery
Level 1 MW Building
40 St Paul Street
Auckland University of Technology
Auckland, New Zealand.
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